Example sentences of "thought [that] the [noun sg] be " in BNC.
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1 | It is thought that the platelet is necessary for the maintenance of normal vascular integrity in that patients with thrombocytopaenia show a generalised haemorrhagic tendency and bruising when the platelet count falls below about 5 × 10 9 /1 , spontaneous bruising and more severe bleeding being possible as the platelet count falls below 20 × 10 9 /1 . |
2 | The woman , who had earlier thought that the male was her boyfriend , discovered that it was not . |
3 | Until now it had been thought that the problem was largely confined to Devon and Cornwall . |
4 | As he left that all-too-familiar graveyard and tramped home through the snow , Charles the Cheesemonger must have thought that the century was drawing to an unpropitious end indeed . |
5 | For many years it was thought that the wreck was a Spitfire , but after delving through archives at the RAF Museum along with information gleaned from various specialist publications , it was discovered that the aircraft was a Curtiss P-40 Tomahawk flown by a Canadian pilot , Harold Fraser-English of 400 Squadron , operating out of Weston Zoyland . |
6 | It is thought that the defence is most relevant in the context of take-overs where a merchant bank may build up a stake in a target company for a prospective bidder . |
7 | It is thought that the cargo was destined for Crowland Abbey . |
8 | Given the robust level of reserves that the board has enjoyed , and given that about £6.5 million of the reserves is being drawn down by the board to ensure a continuous and constant level of training , I should have thought that the board was exhibiting a responsible approach . |
9 | I would have thought that the opposite was the case . |
10 | In the absence of any satisfactory or complete explanation of mass strandings , some people have thought that the whale are committing suicide . |
11 | He had thought that the synagogue was their house of purification . |
12 | It might be thought that the concept is a new one . |
13 | An illustration of deception by words is Banaster ( 1979 ) 68 Cr App R 272 ( CA ) , which held that a judge was entitled to leave to the jury the question whether a mini cab driver at Heathrow airport deceived a foreigner when he said that he was driving an " airport taxi " because the foreigner , who was on his first visit to England , might have thought that the taxi was an official one . |
14 | It is thought that the intruder was disturbed by a barking dog . |
15 | ‘ It had always been thought that the collection was part of the Edward Backhouse collection , ’ says Alec . |
16 | Here it suffices to say that the aim is to ensure that a company is required to do so when it is thought that the matter is one that the public needs to know . |
17 | The head is missing , and Evans originally thought that the figure was that of a boy ; it is now seen as a monkey . |
18 | It had indeed been thought that the climate was too severe for wheat to grow further north , but the richness of the soil there , the abundance of river and lake water , and the intensity of the short summer soon exploded this theory . |
19 | Much though my hon. Friend may dream about the days of beer and sandwiches , I should have thought that the Opposition were so besotted with Europe that it would have to be cafe and croissants , if that change ever came about . |
20 | It might be thought that the analogy is readily extended to cover this situation , but in fact a whole range of new phenomena arise . |
21 | Many learned people still thought that the world was flat . |
22 | Sally-Anne Tunstall , beloved daughter of Senator Jared Tunstall , arguably the richest man in the USA , and his dear wife Mary , niece of Orrin Tunstall , the American ambassador , society beauty , heiress , spoiled child of fortune , who had once thought that the world was her ball to play with , sat on her bed in an East End attic , dressed in her skivvy 's clothing , grieving because she could not consummate her love for a poor doctor who had renounced the world over which she had once reigned . |
23 | In the past it has been thought that the fault was greed , but this is too simple a view . |